gallipot
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Pour some into small boxes for present use, and the remainder into a gallipot tied down with a bladder.—Another.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton
And she sped away, bringing back an old gallipot, which she filled, and held to the child's lips.
From Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various
The old chemist looked up over his spectacles, held for an instant a gallipot suspended between finger and thumb, and set it down with nice judgment.
From True Tilda by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Defense ß Dieu De faire miracle en ce lieu; and the stage properties afterwards found with the holy woman, such as the gallipot of colouring ointment, justify his suspicion.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
"It is a pretty place," he adds, "though nothing to frighten any body, unless he hath lived in a gallipot."
From Lorna Doone A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
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